Gregory Maguire World Quotations

There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

The world was floods above and fire below

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.

I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.